Medical records provided to the adoptive parents of Emmalee Parker showed she'd been vaccinated for measles at 16 months in her orphanage in India, but not that she'd been exposed to the disease. Doctors here suspect she was exposed before age 1, and the disease manifested itself years later as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, an almost always fatal disease. The diagnosis was delayed because of information gap and measles relative rarity here.

Mom Erica Parker advocates for parents to push for second opinions when a child is ill, and be aware that measles is far from eradicated. "No parent should end up with an adopted child with an illness like this undiagnosed for years because nobody knows," she said.

A recent adoption news roundup on Omamas pointed you to Britian's new approach to adoption policies, looking to cut "political correctness" concerns. This week in Britain, the high court rejected the claim made by a Pentecostal Christian couple that the Derby city council discriminated against them. Eunice
and Owen Johns told a social
worker they would not tell foster children that a homosexual lifestyle is
acceptable. The Guardian of London wrote: The
case was the latest to be brought by conservative evangelicals, led by
the Christian Legal Centre, over their supporters' right to discriminate
specifically against gay people and not be bound by equality
regulations. All the cases have so far been lost.